Monitoring sanitation performance: unpacking the figures on sanitation coverage

Ecological Sanitation

Lord Napier on Jail Sanitation

Tub late Governor of Madras is reported to have spoken as follows in tlie public health section of the Social Science Association :?" While 1 was in India there were about eight thousand prisoners in the Presidency of Madras, and a plan being laid down for tlie improvement of the jail accommodation, it became my duty to prosecute that plan with all the energy and vigour I could. We commenced by...

Sanitation in the Plains

At present the latrine in India is, as usuallymet with, a most insanitary arrangement; dark, airless and evil smelling. In the Indian Medical Gazette * I have already described a type of latrine for hill stations which has proved extremely satisfactory. The latrine here described is intended for the plains and is a distinct improvement on the usual model. i My object is to expose the whole inte...

The Horrors of Sanitation

WE are so accustomed to regard the sanitary engineer as a bulwark against infectious diseases that we are apt to be shocked when he is portrayed as an insufferable nuisance. In a lecture recently delivered in Denmark, Dr. M. Hindhede, the distinguished vegetarian, gave an entertaining account of visits he had lately paid to garden cities in England and Germany. The villain of the piece in Engla...

Field Sanitation